Tools of the Trade Pt 2

Well I've officially been working on this new Ork army for over a year!

I have exactly 428 / 1500 completely done and painted...
As sad as that may sound for a years worth of work it's all the conversion work and scratch building that eats my time. As a result I have almost 1000 points of stuff 60-85% ready for paint. My goal over the next month or so is to finish up projects that I have on the go and start power painting. It's actually a fairly reasonable goal for me to paint 500 points worth of figs in a months time, I really do have that many projects edging on being completed. I just won't stop getting distracted by new and crazy ideas!

I made myself a late Christmas present today.
This afternoon I just got sick and tired of cutting plasticard with a dull X-acto and using straight edges that haven't been straight for months due to excessive wear and tear. Let alone the fact that my measuring tools are so old and warped that they aren't acurate anymore...
I didn't think one could wear out drafters tools. I was wrong.
I bought a new set of measuring guides, angle finders, a steel ruler long enough to cut a full sheet of plasticard (bought dang time!) and a new set of blades. That and a $3 cutting board that, heaven forbid, actually lies flat on my table. I should be good for a while now.


As always during the Christmas holidays I promise myself that I'll finish up a bunch of projects I have on the go and instead find myself working on some newfangled idea that springs into my head at the last minute...
Last year it was a heavy gun trukk that eventually became my Huey. This year its this:

I gave into peer pressure this week and decided to add Grotz to my KoS list. Of course they needed the most ramshackle (read as AWESOME!) helicopter transport imaginable. So I build this junker out of spare parts and plastic tubing, loosely based on a Bell-47.
For those of you who get the reference "Suicide is Painless" at least that's what they tell the Grotz...

Here's a shot of the tail boom, a few more structural bitz and it will be all done.

I put together the structure for the rotors today, now I'm just waiting for sculpting putty to dry and I can add the final details.

As you can tell my Grotz are just thrilled.

Hehehehe

The infamous cattleskull

Well it took almost a year of ebay scrounging but I finally found this cattle skull bit!
I was so frustrated trying to find one that I was half tempted to just buy the bloody Fantasy Orks boxed set just to get the one bit.

This bit means alot to me, it was the last bit I added to my first Ork blimp trukk and I really badly wanted it on my first of the new generation of blimp trukks.

Well now that its done... Back to converting!